Comment by DANmode

6 hours ago

That’s how everybody in academia, tech, and published authors in general used to write.

Where do you think the LLM is getting it from? ^_^

the full on em dash requires a different character than - or --

it was generated that way, or else this person happens to know the correct combination of buttons to make that happen.

in 2026, at least 20-40% of social media traffic is bots (and probably higher with better LLMs), so it is usually safer to just assume.

  • On a Mac, at least, the "correct combination of buttons" is trivial and easy to remember, even for someone like me who rarely uses em-dash. (But, I want to start using it more because I'm sick to death of people treating it as a scarlet letter.)